FROM hotel chains to comedy actors, Leedex PR is enjoying a purple patch.

The agency crowned its most successful month ever by being appointed to handle the changeover of Whitbread Hotels' Travel Inn brand to Premier Travel Inn - plus a programme of new Premier Travel Inn openings across the UK.

Brian Beech, managing director of Leedex, said: "We continue to go from strength . The fact that we had the most successful month in our history is testament to that."

The Whitbread work followed a record month in which Leedex won five new pieces of business.

New recruit Mike Smethurst joins from an MA course in PR at Manchester Metropolitan University.